. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. But then this same lyingbraggadocio says he has read medicine with Ricard, and hadvarious honors conferred upon him. Dr. Pulte, of Ohio, one of the western pioneers in home-opathy, who has often been greeted, in his earlier profes-sional rounds, by a shower of dirt, rotten eggs, stones, LARGE INCOMES. 403 brickbats, and had rails and sticks thrust through his car-riage wheels at night, and
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. But then this same lyingbraggadocio says he has read medicine with Ricard, and hadvarious honors conferred upon him. Dr. Pulte, of Ohio, one of the western pioneers in home-opathy, who has often been greeted, in his earlier profes-sional rounds, by a shower of dirt, rotten eggs, stones, LARGE INCOMES. 403 brickbats, and had rails and sticks thrust through his car-riage wheels at night, and been otherwise insulted, until,filially, he had to carry his wife about with him, as a pro-tective measure, — for his revilers would not insult a lady, —has since made as high as twenty thousand dollars a year,and has amassed a fortune of two hundred thousand is a Boston homeopathist whose income from practiceis not less than twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars an-nually. Some of the surgeons (allopathic) do better, buthardly reach the figures of Dr. Kelaton, the great Frenchsurgeon, who, in 1869, earned four hundred thousand francs,equal to about eighty thousand dollars. MJJk. A PIONEER OF HOMEOPATHY. Dr. Bigelow, the very celebrated surgeon of Harvard Col-lege, has probably received the largest fee for a surgicaloperation of any Xew England practitioner. He is said tobe worth nearly a million. Dr. Buckingham, the eminent medical practitioner, ofBoston, who probably earns as much as any physician in thecity, a few years ago stated to the graduating class of Har-vard College — so I am informed by a physician then pres-ent— that he received for his first years practice in Boston 404 CATCH WHAT YOU CAN. hut fifty-seven dollars. He then had a little office up stairs,where he slept, dined, — often on bread and cheese, or afew crackers; sometimes he did not dine, — and received hisfew patients. But he was a great student, and a hardworker, and often, a
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